For her, therefore, renunciation has two meanings- one in terms of the spirit and the other in terms of the political statement. Khandelwal's woman renunciate sends out a strong political statement and flouts her societal duties by choosing the path that steers away from the household- from motherhood. ... Instances of vociferously protesting the ties of marriage, as in the case of Akka Mahadevi, or the outright refusal of marriage, as in the case of Andal and even the rejection of the fiercely imposed widowhood, with regard to the story of Mira- are all exemplified stories that that trav...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The author made a statement we really do not know who killed Goliath, because of the scriptures. ... But also with David, we see tragedy of rebellion against Gods plan. ... His image seems to be an heart of unraveling the truth; his words are explanatory with facts to back up his statements, but the problem I see, is he puts his opinions in the book which if you did not know history you would not know the difference of facts or non-facts, for example his remark we do not know by scriptures who really killed Goliath the Palestine Giant. ...

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Ziannuto, was the illiterate son of Menocchio, who proved to be the most diligent in trying to help his father, hiring an attorney and petitioned statements to help defend his father. ... It is a good example of the transformations that were taking place during this period after the peasant rebellion and the readers understanding of popular culture has been enriched. ...

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He quickly went from being condemned as the worst of atheists and blasphemers to being universally admired by all the leading intellectuals of the day, who found in Spinoza's works a revolutionary spirit that matched their own rising sense of rebellion against the orthodoxies of church and state. ... This statement was surprising because the fact that the soul is immortal, is a mainstream opinion within Jewish rabbinic traditions, it is not however entirely unambiguous. ...

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In this sense there is still a kind of "freedom" in the choices that people make.Yet because of their inability to do good and to escape from their fundamental rebellion against God and their fundamental preference for sin, unbelievers do not have freedom in the most important sense of freedom-that is, the freedom to do right, and to do what is pleasing to God. ...

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Understanding the Christian Doctrines of Divine Sovereignty, Predestination, And Free Will for Counseling "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." (John 3:16, NRSV) "But to all who did receive him, who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:12, 13, ESV) "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise that person up on the last day." (...

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No parable of Jesus has been used or quoted more than that of "The Prodigal Son-. The impact and the effect that this story has had on the lives of people who have heard it are tremendous. J.E. Compton says, "the greatest of all His [Jesus'] parables."" We as human beings have always struggled wit...

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"11 In this respect, dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams exposed the raw tensions of the American family, and confronted problems of the lost individual in an industrial and mechanized society through statements of psychological and spiritual displacements, loss of connections, loneliness and self-deception. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School